A satirical Victorian novel about money, ambition, and social climbing. It follows a dubious financier and the families drawn into his schemes, exposing the moral compromises of fashionable London. Trollope's sharp, observant storytelling makes it a rewarding portrait of a society obsessed with wealth and status.
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Editorial Note:
The Way We Live Now was first published in twenty monthly parts from
February, 1874, to September, 1875, and in book form by Chapman and
Hall in 1875.
Both the monthly parts and the Chapman and Hall first edition contained the forty illustrations included in this e-book. The artist, whose name is not listed on the title page, was long thought to be Samuel Luke Fildes, but recent scholarship attributes the illustrations to Lionel Grimston Fawkes.
Images of the original illustrations for Chapters I-L are available through the
Google Books Library Project. See http://www.google.com/books? id=TvsBAAAAQAAJ. Those for Chapters LI-C are available through
Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/waywelivenow02trolrich
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW by ANTHONY TROLLOPE CONTENTS Chapter I. THREE EDITORS. II. THE CARBURY FAMILY. III. THE BEARGARDEN. IV. MADAME MELMOTTE'S BALL. V. AFTER THE BALL. VI. ROGER CARBURY AND PAUL MONTAGUE. VII. MENTOR. VIII. LOVE-SICK. IX. THE GREAT RAILWAY TO VERA CRUZ. X. MR. FISKER'S SUCCESS. XI. LADY CARBURY AT HOME.
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